NARENDRA Kumar was born on July 10, 1957, in Delhi’s Karol Bagh, in a family deep into poverty. His father Late Lila Ram...
ByNarendra KaushikMarch 9, 2018IT was peer pressure that brought Rita Sinha—than Rita Kudwa—into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). She was pursuing masters in geography from Punjab University...
ByNarendra KaushikJanuary 26, 2018WHEN Haryana, or what was then known as South Punjab, was made a separate State on November 1, 1966, it hardly had anything...
ByNarendra KaushikDecember 10, 2017IT was Allahabad’s infectious pull for civil services that put Sharda Prasad, son of unlettered farmer parents in Alampur Geria village of Fatehpur...
ByNarendra KaushikDecember 10, 2017IT was a taunt and better prospects of growth and emoluments that brought Kamal Krishna Sinha into Indian Administrative Service (IAS). Otherwise Sinha,...
ByNarendra KaushikOctober 14, 2017IT was peer pressure and ease of doing studies which brought Triloki Nath Pandey, son of Chandra Nath Pandey, an accounts officer in...
ByNarendra KaushikSeptember 15, 2017IT was a house and family commitments that more or less brought Vinod Vaish into civil services. Son of Nihal Chand Vaish, a...
ByNarendra KaushikAugust 19, 2017FOR Probir Chandra Sen, his indecision is what landed him into the civil services. Grandson of AN Sen, former judge of the Calcutta...
ByNarendra KaushikJuly 9, 2017ATUL Chaturvedi, 66, was born in a family of civil servants. His father, PN Chaturvedi, was a PCS who was coopted into IAS....
ByNarendra KaushikMay 10, 2017THANKS to his height, Naresh Chandra Saxena, born in Bareilly, got a head start in school. When his father, Krishan Swaroop Saxena, a...
ByNarendra KaushikApril 11, 2017